Company With Roots In Serving Investors Aims To Disrupt Expert Witness Business

By Robert Ambrogi

Two high-profile hires signal a new, more aggressive phase of building its legal business

Many in the legal profession may never have heard of Gerson Lehrman Group, even though it is the world’s largest company providing expert consultants to investors and business professionals in virtually every sector. But over the last five years, the company has quietly expanded into the legal world, providing experts and expert witnesses for litigation and other matters. Now the company has made two hires that signal a new, more aggressive phase of building its legal business, which it calls GLG Law.